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Ep. 476 — Ian Bremmer

The Axe Files with David Axelrod

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The Soviet Union and the Soviet Union

Post-soviet world was a period of transition, the post soviet world. How would you grade the u ss handling of that period? And how much does it contribute to the retrenchment we've seen since then? I mean, what we did with the russians was almost as bad as what we doing with the arakes. We just completely lost because we weren't willing to do the spade work and wound up with really a corrupt oligarchy. That's right. Completely.

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